Brad Reed reports, Republican’s top ally says Jews aren’t welcome in conservative movement: ‘This is an explicitly Christian country’: A top ally for the Republican Party’s nominee for Pennsylvania’s governor has now explicitly said that Jews should not be welcome into the American conservative movement unless they convert to Christianity. The Jerusalem Post reports that … Read more
Kakistocracy (kak·is·toc·ra·cy | \ ˌkakə̇ˈstäkrəsē): a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. Kleptocracy (klep·toc·ra·cy | \ klep-ˈtä-krə-sē): a government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed. Many political scientists use these terms to describe Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation. Vladimir Putin is effectively … Read more
The Christian Nationalists on the U.S. Supreme Court (curiously all of them Catholics, not fundamentalist evangelicals) are laying a foundation for a White Christian Nationalist America that the Founding Fathers sought to prevent with the First Amendment, given their recent experience with centuries od sectarian religious wars in Europe. Linda Greenhouse, legal columnist for the … Read more
The Hill reports, House passes bill to protect access to contraceptives after Supreme Court warning shot: The House passed a bill on Thursday to safeguard access to contraceptives, less than a month after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said the bench should overturn the landmark case protecting forms of birth control. The legislation, titled the … Read more
Colorado held its primary election on Tuesday and MAGA/QAnon election denier candidates lost their Republican primary. The Daily Beast reports, Indicted Election Denier Tina Peters Loses Her Own Election—and Denies She Lost: Tina Peters, the [election denier] Colorado county clerk who flogged election conspiracy theories and was then indicted for allegedly breaching [the security of] … Read more